178:. He was asked to help with the university's annual Quadrangle Club musical show, and his involvement grew from helping to a promise "to shoulder the entire musical responsibility for the production". Haenschen asked musicians in St. Louis for advice about conducting and arranging music, and their tips helped him to produce the program and to form a career in music. He also expanded his musical talents by learning to play the
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baseball team. He formed a service that booked orchestras for performances in St. Louis and in several states. Haenschen also became manager of the
Vandervoort Music Salon's "talking machine department", a position that he left when he enlisted in the Navy, where he served as an ensign until his June
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Brunswick Records, Haenschen conducted the company's house orchestra on recordings. Because of anti-German feelings at that time, immediately after World War I, he used the name Carl Fenton Orchestra on record labels. In the mid-1940s, Gus Haenschen's All-String Orchestra was an
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In the late 1940s, Haenschen and two partners formed HRH Television
Features Corporation to produce English versions of grand opera for television. By April 1949 they had 57 operas ready for production. Each opera was condensed in a way that maintained continuity, eliminating "the unimportant and
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While he continued in his engineering studies, Haenschen began to focus more on music, organizing a band and producing another musical program. That second program included his new composition, "Moorish Tango", which became popular with dancers in the St. Louis area. Some dancers from out of town
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Haenschen included "Easy Melody", "Silver Star", "Lullaby of Love", "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round", and "Rosita". He sometimes used the pseudonym Paul Crane for compositions, including "Down on the Farm", "President Harding March", "President Coolidge March", "The St. Louis Society
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heard the song when they were visiting, and later
Haenschen received a telegram asking for permission to use the song in a Broadway show. That initial use of the song on Broadway caused Haenschen to go to New York City, where his dealing with
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orchestra that was popular and made him "locally famous" in St. Louis. The group's engagements included two years of playing for open-air dances in St. Louis's city parks. Brewery owner
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Dance", and (with A. Bernard) "Keep on Going, When You Get Where You're Going You Won't Be Missed at All".Haenschen composed some of the music for the
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often tiresome parts of the score, retaining only the important parts."
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re-titled the song "Underneath the Japanese Moon" and used it in his
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programs. His other transcribed radio programs included
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140:Walter Gustave Haenschen
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639:"The Haenschen Formula"
594:St. Louis Post-Dispatch
377:Personal life and death
340:Composing and arranging
297:Saturday Night Serenade
998:Bastin, Bruce (2012).
718:"'Mother' Song Series"
154:Haenschen was born in
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167:. Haenschen attended
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169:McKinley High School
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235:St. Louis Cardinals
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269:The Palmolive Hour
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785:Cox, Jim (2003).
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351:No Foolin'
305:to record
278:Coca-Cola
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